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HARDLIFE HERALD Newsletter of the 385Th Bombardment Group Association HARDLIFE HERALD Newsletter of the 385th Bombardment Group Association 548th 549th 550th 551st 1942 - 1945 Great Ashfield - Suffolk, England Station 155 - The Mighty Eighth Volume 29 - Number 5 November 2012 San Antonio Reunion - October 2012 HARDLIFE HERALD TABLE OF CONTENTS 385th Bombardment Group (H) Federal IRS Tax Exempt Code #501 (C) (19) 52-1068468 PAGE Officers and Directors 02....Officers and Directors / Cover Credits 03....President’s Message / Letter From the Editor 04....The Demise of Powerful Katrinka PRESIDENT EDITOR Thomas Gagnon Charles Lundsberg 09....Great Ashfield - by Tom Gagnon 19 White Pine Knoll 58 Ivy Grove Way 11....Featured Pin-Up Artist - Freeman Elliot Westford, MA 01886 (S) Dallas, GA 30132 11....”There I was...” - Bob Stevens Cartoons 814 Staffordshre (678) 457-7759 (C) Sun City, FL 33573 (W) [email protected] 12....Pin-Up - “An Arrow Escape” (813) 394-0338 (C) 13....Calendars [email protected] HISTORIAN 14....San Antonio Reunion Pictures Ian McLachlan VICE-PRESIDENT 10 All Saints Green 19....385th BGA Taps Susan Stern Fineman Worlingham Beccles 23....Subsription Information 13400 Cheltenham Dr. Suffolk NR34 7RR Sherman oaks, CA 91423 Ianm385bg@ (818) 789-4097 (H) btopenworld.com (818) 802-9924 (C) [email protected] SECRETARY Barbara Dangleman TREASURER 741 Faith Street Chuck Smith Maitland, FL 32751 P.O. Box 329 (407) 628-5424 Front Cover: 385th Veteran Attendees Alpheretta, GA 30009 [email protected] (404) 683-2896 chucksmith@ PAST PRESIDENT smithindustrialsales. Albert (Al) Audette Due to it’s popularity at the last 385th reunion com 279 Washington St. *LIFE MEMBER CONTACT Woburn, MA 01801 (just ask Chuck how many he made) we bring (781) 933-5316 you... DIRECTORS [email protected] Vincent W. Masters *AFHS CONTACT 389 Westview Dr. Athens, GA 30606 BOARD ADVISORS RoyAnne’s Cosmo Recipe (706) 546-1324 *Monuments, Memorials jayjaymasters@yahoo. and Anniversaries net -Jigger of Vodka Leo L. LaCasse USAF Ret. -Half Jigger of Cuantreau Verne Phillips 4911 Hunting Hill, CT P.O. Drawer 5970 Roanoke, VA 24018 -Cranberry Juice Austin, TX 78763 (540) 772-1907 -Shake or Stir over Ice (512) 458-1539 [email protected] [email protected] -Garnish with Lime John W. Hyatt Lindley R. Weikert 6754 East Eagle Crest Dr. -Optional Splash of Club Soda at end. 6155 Grand Vista Ave. Flagstaff, AZ 86004 Cincinnati, OH 45213- [email protected] 1719 Adjust ingrediants to taste. (513) 731-7116 (H) Burton Gelbman (513) 477-2774 (C) 1706 Wedge Court [email protected] Sun City Center, FL 33573 HONORY MEMBERS Burtg23@tampabay. Roger Feller rr.com Eldon Nysethter Mayor Ferdinand Unsen All photos / content copyright their respective rightful owners. 02 HARDLIFE HERALD NOVEMBER 2012 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Let me begin with a few words about reunions. Once again, the 385th BGA was well rep- resented at the 8th AFHS reunion held this year in San Antonio. San Antonio was a lovely venue and we continued our tradition, thanks mainly to Chuck Smith, of having the most popular, well-stocked, and well-attended hospitality suite at the reunion. The 8th AFHS has elected to hold their 2013 reunion in Savannah, in July. While Savannah is lovely and its proximity to the Mighty 8th Air Force Museum is a real plus, your 385th BGA Board of Directors expressed real concern about going to Savannah in July due to the heat and humidity prevalent at that time of year. Once again, the Board is leaning strongly to hold- ing our 2013 reunion separately from the national reunion at a place and time other than Savannah in July. Several alternatives are under investigation. Watch this space in sub- sequent issues for more information. The holiday season is upon us once again. Where did the time go?? My very best wishes to you all and to your families for a Happy Thanksgiving. There is so much to be thankful for. At least, by the time you read this, the election will be behind us and we will finally have a respite from all of those annoying phone calls and combative commercials! I don’t mean to make light of the problems facing our country and how they impact many of us and/or our loved ones directly or indirectly. Nevertheless, I do believe that if we pause and give it some thought, I believe each and every one of us will find much to be grateful for. May you and yours continue to be blessed. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As the holiday seasons rapidly approach, my thoughts turn to the many things I have to be thankful for. I enjoy being surrounded by family and friends and was fortunate to be able to attend the 385th reunion in San Antonio this year thanks to Chuck Smith. It was an honour to be able to converse with both familiar and new faces not only with the 385th, but with all the veterans, next generations and guests from other Bomb Groups that at- tended the 8th Air Force reunion. I would also like to extend another sincere thanks to Chuck Smith for putting me on my first B-17 flight this past summer. The “Movie Memphis Belle” (41-24485) was in town to support the Liberty Belle Foundation and it’s rebuilding of its own B-17 of the same name. I was amazing by how stable the aircraft flew, how intense the noise was from the engines in the bomb bay / plank area and the tremean- dous wind tunnel that existed from the radio operator’s open gun port on to the back of the plane. (This F-model did not have the luxery of plexiglass windows) Needless to say it was very memorable and I cannot fathom what it must have been like with the added existance of Flak, enemy fighters and the long high altitude flights. I’m still smiling about this - thank you again, Chuck. This is more than likely the last issue I’ll get out this year, so I’d like to wish you all a Joy- ous Holiday season. God Bless. NOVEMBER 2012 HARDLIFE HERALD 03 The Demise of Powerful KaTrinKa © ian mclachlan (from eighTh air force BomBer sTories – a new selecTion) Lt Charles Guyler and crew hangar on the southern side over the UK. However, this sought a cartoon theme of the airfield undergoing policy had recently been re- when requesting 385th art- battle-damage repairs. That laxed and Me 410’s of KG51 ist Anne Haywood to adorn day the 385th had launched were again abroad seek- their B-17 with a caricature 20 aircraft to support at- ing to catch the unwary. On of “Powerful Katrinka”. This tacks on marshalling yards 23rd May, they had already was no curvaceous lovely in Chaumont as part of the destroyed Lancaster NN695 but was familiar from child- build up to D-Day. Intense of 619 Squadron at 02.55 hood as the robust, Scandi- pressure prevailed to repair hours over East Wretham, navian housemaid featured damaged aircraft in black- Norfolk with the loss of six in the “Toonerville Trolley” out conditions because Luft- crew. Attacks also occurred cartoon strip. Protectivewaffe activities had recent- over Bedfordshire and on of her young charges in the ly increased, most notably Lancasters of 105 Squadron series, she was frequently on 22nd April 1944 as -deat Bourn, Cambridgeshire, called upon to perform feats scribed in my, “Night of theonly some thirty miles west of great strength and the Intruders”. During any noc- of Great Ashfield. Guyler crew felt this was turnal activity on the base, very appropriate for their external lights were kept to It may have been only a mo- Flying Fortress. Annie soon a minimum and doused dur- mentary lapse in discipline had a trestle alongside the ing an air raid alert. Black- or inadequate blackout pre- recently assigned B-17G out conditions were intended cautions but, allegedly, an and 42-31928 underwent to prevent seepage of light open hangar door sent light the anthropomorphosis into from buildings acting as a shafting a beam across the “Powerful Katrinka”. She beacon to prowling Luftwaffe concrete apron approach- served the Group well dur- intruders. The 385th wereing Hangar One thus inviting ing the winter of 1943-4 andpreparing themselves for some unwelcome attention. it was not air combat that a maximum effort against At 0320 hours, an alert Ger- destroyed their plucky ser- Berlin and mission planning man aircrew seized the mo- vant but an action unique in and briefing activities were ment. Having passed over Eighth Air Force history. already underway. Great Ashfield, their Messer- schmitt wheeled sharply and While airmen slept, or tried Outside, the Suffolk coun- powered back towards the to, other essential activities tryside was sheathed in airfield. Encountering no continued unabated and the darkness while cottage win- anti-aircraft fire, the intruder resourcefulness of skilled dows rattled gently to the released seven 50kg bombs ground crews became leg- nocturne of aero-engines that straddled the air base. endary with personnel work- high above. RAF Bomber Most exploded harmlessly ing long hours to maximize Command was continuing but one fell cleanly through operational efficiency. Lower its own unceasing challenge the roof of Number One han- level maintenance was car- to the enemy with over 1000 gar exploding on the unfor- ried out in the open, often in sorties flown. Ranging in re- tunate “Powerful Katrinka”. appalling weather, but some taliation, the Luftwaffe’s ef- The blast tore sheets of cor- work required hangar facili- forts were comparatively rugated iron cladding from ties and, on 23rd May, 1944, puny owing in part to Hit- the hangar side and lift- “Powerful Katrinka” was in ler’s having previously pro- ed both sets of doors from Great Ashfield’s number one scribed intruder operations their runners to collapse on 04 HARDLIFE HERALD NOVEMBER 2012 the concrete aprons outside each end of the hangar.
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